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Last week Lou's employer Delta Dental of California laid off 70 people at his location in Rancho Cordova. One of his co-workers was laid off and he had to help her carry her stuff to her car. Lou said that when he got to work on Friday (the day of the layoffs) there was a memo in his email (like the one below) but he elected not to call me so that I wouldn't panic.I was working on Twitter for a

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Happy New Year, it's time to take down your Holiday Decorations!!!It has been a crazy few weeks here in the Cullo household. In addition to the usual craziness of the holiday season we decieded to throw a game party. I had a great time but will never do that again because the holidays are crazy enough! What happened is that we normally have a Dessert party a few days after Christmas so that we

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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The clubhouse in our community has a 1/2 hour ballet class for just a few bucks. I really wanted her to go to a local dance studio, but maybe when she is a little bit older. She reallly likes this one because her best buddy Stella is in the class with her. Lily follows the directions of the teacher very well, and she has a great time. This is a picture of Lily before class. Here is is dancing

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We went to Second Saturday in downtown Sacramento. I thought that it would be a fun event to take Lily too because she could see a lot of different types of art in one place. We went to The Art Foundry and were able to see a demonstration of a bronze pouring, it was really neat and she liked it too. As we walked around the different galleries within The Art Foundry Lily would point out pieces

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Lily found a great costume at Old Navy and loved wearing it tonight.

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Lou wanted to go racing with me for his birthday. So we headed off to Race Place Motorsports in Rancho Cordova - http://www.raceplacemotorsports.com/Here are a few pictures of us before the race.LouDawn Monster Energy Track Results

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Get your tickets!!! http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/0xtjrz/?dma_id=374Wicked Events - http://www.wickedthemusical.com/#WickedCitiesSanFrancisco Exclusive Presale Offer!Take advantage of this special presale offer to purchase tickets to see Wicked at the Orpheum Theatre. The musical phenomenon that started here in San Francisco returns to the Orpheum Theatre on January 27, 2009. Don't miss

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Louis posing with Lily in his new Bo Jackson jersey.The Raider Football CakeMama & Lily

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Holy crap, Walgreens is coming to Anatolia!!! We have all been so pissed off about Safeway and Raley's not putting on their Big Girl Panties and building out here we forgot about Walgreens. They have had a sign up for as long as Safeway and Raley's and then BOOM out of the blue on Monday they started digging up the land and put a sign that said ' Walgreens '. It was like a gift...we can't wait!

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Wow, she is 3. It has been 3 years since I was hold up in my bed for a few days watching the Katrina and Rita Hurricanes. Every year her birthday comes around I remember that and now this year there was Hurricane Gustav to worry about. At least we don't live in Hurricane country so we don't need to worry about that.Anyway, I can't believe that it has been 3 years since Lily entered our lives. I

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Over the past few weeks I have been dealing with our latest Lily issue and that is of her being scared to use public restrooms. Ok, many people have germ fears, but Lily's is a noise fear and not just the noise but not knowing when the noise is going to happen. She also is afraid of the hand dryers and those and automatic potties flushing at the same time is a nightmare for her. I can totally

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We had this day picked out a few weeks ago as a good day to go to the fair. Louis has to put in a request for a day off in advance so we really couldn't change the date once he requested it off. If you live in Sacramento you know that for some strange reason when the fair opens the heat just rises. Today, was so hot I think the corn dog I ate came out of my pores as I was eating it. Lily thought

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Well, we can add August 23rd as another date on our calendar for an anniversary. Daria and Josh got married on Saturday and it was great. The ceremony took place at St. Ignatius and the reception was at Joe & Mary Anne's backyard. It was a little warm outside but we all managed to stay cool with the mister fans and umbrellas and lots of water. They are off on their Honeymoon right now in

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I found this article online and thougth it might be helpful to identify if you have a high spirited little bugger living under your roof.http://www.nurturingourfamilies.com/spirited/exptdefn.htmlHere is a brief summary of what a few "experts" (Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, William Sears, Linda Budd & Stanley Turecki) consider to be the defining characteristics or personality traits of our wonderful

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The first time I used an automatic flushing toilet was in Disneyland many years ago and I thought they were the greatest thing ever just really cool. Now, fast forward to when I am happy to have a potty trained little girl....automatic flushing toilets are my enemy.She was doing great on the potty in public places but then we ran into an automatic flushing toilet. She literally jumped off the

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Over the past six months or so I have lost sight of who my daughter really is. She is a spirited child and has been so since the day she was born. I had no idea what 'spirited child' really meant until her gymnastics teacher told me about this wonderful trait. See this blog posting from 2006! -http://cullofamily.blogspot.com/2006/11/our-spirited-child.htmlI have been so wrapped up in working,

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Oh little Kenny V is 1, my how the time flys. He is walking now and so darn cute. He is so much fun and such an easy guy. He ate a little bit of cake, his cousins helped him blow out the candles.

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I am a little sad today. We had to take Lily out of Preschool for a bit, it was just too expensive for us to do. My income from working at home just wasn't enough to cover her Preschool and the balance of our house payment. I hate to say that, but it is true. I feel kind of stupid for finding a place that I love and Lily loves and then having to pull her out. At Lou's work he can participate

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Starbucks announced the list of stores that they will be closing over the next year. Is your favorite location on the list? Thankfully the one in Rancho Cordova is not closing, it has a drive through so I think maybe those stores do a little bit better. I really don't have the extra cash to buy my beloved carmel machitto anymore so I wouldn't really miss it if it closed.

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Daria's Bridal shower was today and it was so much fun. Judy hosted the shower at her beautiful home and served a yummie lunch. I think that one of the best gifts was a Coach key fob given to her from Joshua's Mom and Krista, it was the letter "Y". Her new last name will be Young. Such a great idea She got some great things for their kitchen too. Her friend Kate moved out town but came to the

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So Lily has been to preschool now 8 times. At time #6 she displayed a little bit of sadness when I came to pick her up. It wasn't that she was sad to go, but I was the last mother to pick up her kid and she was getting nervous that I was going to leave her there. No such luck with that one Lily...but we can't afford a full day for you at Goddard. Anway, when I spoke to her teacher she said that

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Hundreds of fires buring around sacramento and this is the result. We are blanketed by smoke. Making for outdoor play impossible. My eyes are buring, my throat feels like it is closing up. I can only imagine how Lily feels when we venture outside. We obviously have not played outside but we did run an errand today. We are playing indoors only.Check out the Cal Fire website for up to date info

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I read this article on Nascar.com and really liked how it describes Northern California as a Racing Place ! If you are looking for a local racetrack in your town check out Nascar Home Tracks or if you are in the Sacramento area check out the All American Speedway in RosevilleSAN FRANCISCO -- There is not a more breathtaking urban landscape in all of America than the one that unfolds before you

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